The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
A Sap and His Money Are Soon Parted
“Sticky-Fingered Thieves Target Sap in Maine”–headline, Associated Press, April 4
News You Can Use
“Contrary to Online Job Posting, You Don’t Need a College Degree to Work at Mass. McDonald’s”–headline,Boston Globe, April 4
Morning After in America
“A federal judge in Brooklyn has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make an over-the-counter ‘morning-after’ pill available to all females without a prescription,” reports the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. The judge, Edward Korman, held that the Department of Health and Human Services’ age limit of 17 “was ‘politically motivated’ and ‘scientifically unjustified.’ “
What caught our attention here was the Star-Ledger’s headline: ” ‘Morning-After’ Pill Approved for Females of All Ages Without Prescription, Federal Judge Rules.”
“Female of all ages,” it seems, is a euphemism for “children.”
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